What is the difference between .avi and .ras?
- Extension
- .avi
- .ras
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Video
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Microsoft
- Sun
- Description
- An AVI file is a file saved in a multimedia container format created by Microsoft. It stores video and audio data that may be encoded in a variety of codecs such as DivX and XviD. AVI files typically use less compression than similar formats such as .MPEG and .MOV.
- Originally used on the Sun Microsystems computers, RAS is a raster image format that displays bitmap images. It is popularly used for specific types of research projects and it can be developed in Unix OS as well. It supports 1 and 32-bits per pixel and used RLE compression codec.
- MIME Type
- video/avi
- image/x-cmu-raster
- Sample
- sample.avi
- Wikipedia
- .avi on Wikipedia
- .ras on Wikipedia